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Arts & Communication Using multiple languages within an improvised fairytale

Figure 2. The second dancer of the trio
Figure 5. The final dancer’s art

Figure 3. The final dancer of the trio
Figure 6. An audience member’s art

A collective future. Everyone wants to see it-we can’t
really see it.

Below is the second dancer’s response:
While one event retreats into the background,
another advances into the foreground,
Turbulence, dicey, uncertainty, unstable,
Manic, chaos, frenzy, unsettled.
Here is the final dancer’s reflection that accompanies
the art making:
Time is always with us. Time flows with us. Time
flies at its own pace. We need it to recuperate. So
many clashes from outside and within us. We can
Figure 4. The first dancer’s art get up again and again.
Here is the reflection that accompanies this art
first dancer’s art and creative writing completed after the making:
dance. Figures 5 and 6 show art responses and creative The lotus requires the mud. The deep muck, the
writing from the final dancer and an audience member, darkness, the not seeing but feeling, deep feeling our
respectively. way through/slop, muck, mud, and stuff. We find
Below is the reflection that accompanied the art making: our beauty.

一叶障目不识泰山 [If a leaf blocks your eyes even if the Below are other participants’ verbal reactions and
Tai Mountain is so great you cannot see it] poetry responses to the dance/music improvisation:
I cannot see it clearly. When I am by myself don’t have Reaching through my thoughts in meditation/Through
to see the future. I was compelled to see the future. the darkness out of the lake.

Volume 2 Issue 2 (2024) 8 doi: 10.36922/ac.2079